Fantasy Baseball Year in Review – Colorado Rockies

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  • By Paul Williamson

    Last Updated on October 6, 2025 6:34 pm by Paul Williamson | Published: October 6, 2025

    It is always going to be uphill battle for the Rockies as an organization as long as they call Coors Field home. It’s where pitchers go to die, where prospect pitchers go and struggle and where hitters produce way better than they would any where else. For fantasy purposes, just hitting in Coors makes them a late-round draft target in the deep leagues and average hitters become good 12-team options. For pitchers, for the most part, just ignore them unless they are on the road.

    This year was, for the most part, no different.

    Catcher

    Hunter Goodman had himself quite the season and was one of, if not the best waiver wire find of 2025. His listed ADP on FanGraphs is 315.2, meaning he was a late-round pick in deep leagues, if he was drafted at all.

    He ended the campaign with 31 homers, 91 RBI, 73 runs and a .278/.323/.520 slashline with a .359 wOBA and a 118 wRC+

    As with any Coors hitter that has a breakout, we are obligated to check the home/away splits.

    While Goodman’s average and OPS dropped on the road with a .247 average and .803 OPS, those numbers are still pretty solid. At home he had a.307 average and .881 OPS.

    However, he did hit 18 of his 31 bombs outside of Coors as he had a higher ISO on the road at .267 with a .219 mark at home. The wRC+ was pretty much the same with a 116 mark at home and 118 on the road.

    While he was a better overall hitter at home, for the purposes of a standard 5×5 leagues, he was not a Coors stream. He was someone you started at home and away.

    This was the second year in a row he turned in a 12.8% barrel rate as he has always known to have power with a 70 grade raw power as a prospect. But this year he turned in a 90.8 MPH avgEV and 46.9% hard-hit rates to help boost the barrel’s effectiveness.

    His hit tool was always in question. This year he did well to get the K% to a manageable 26.3% though he still has a 16.3% swinging strike rate and a barely passable 70.0% contact rate.

    Those plate discipline numbers do make him susceptible to turning in a dud 2026. In order for him to repeat this season, he cannot see the contact rate drop any more and he has keep the barrel and hard-hit rates where they are at. Any drop in any of those categories could push him from a legit stud to a fringe 12-teamer or off the fantasy radar altogether.

    Given his floor, I view him as a top-10 to 12 catcher in 2026 and won’t be drafting him anywhere close to the top-2 finish we saw in 2025.

    First base

    Goodman did what a lot of people thought Michael Toglia would do after he broke out with 25 homers in 2024.

    However, Toglia turned in the kind of season that is the floor that I described about Goodman.

    This year we saw Toglia turn in an unacceptable 39.2% K% and 17.3% SwStr% leading to a putrid 64.4% contact rate.

    He hit just 11 homers in 337 plate appearances with a .190 average.

    He also saw his barrel drop to 10.2% (from 2024’s 17.2%)  and the hard-hit rate drop to 43.2% from 50.0%.

    Toglia is not guaranteed a starting spot in 2026, especially after Warming Bernabel performed OK at first after Toglia was cast off to Triple-A (and someone like Charlie Condon may find his way to first as well). .

    Bernabel started out hot and was a fun stream for a little bit but cooled off. He ended the year with a .252 average ,four homers, 15 runs, 14 RBI in 146 plate appearances. Bernabel didn’t show much upside as a prospect after turning in a solid 14 homers, 22 steals campaign between Low-A and High-A in 2022. He has not hit double-digit homers not eclipsed 12 steals in any season after that.

    Toglia could be a late-round flyer in 2026 if he earns the Opening Day start. Bernabel isn’t someone to draft in hardly any league, if ends up with the job.

    Or it could be Blane Crim.

    Second base

    The starting job at the keystone was in constant flux this year with Kyle Farmer, Tyler Freeman, Ryan Ritter, Thairo Estrada and Adael Amador each playing some amount of second base this year.

    Freeman played mostly the outfield so his season will be discussed in the outfield section.

    Of the names that played second, the one that probably holds those most fantasy intrigue is Ritter.

    He had a breakout campaign in 2023 with 24 homers and 20 steals in 2023, had his season cut short in 2024 before really delivering in Triple-A in 2025 with 16 homers in 260 plate appearances with a .303/.405/.610 slashline and a 137 wRC+.

    Unfortunately, the production did not carry over into the majors with just one homer and three steals in 207 plate appearances. He got the K% down to a nice 20.8% in AAA but saw that sky rocket to 29.5% as the BB% also plummeted to 4.8% in the majors after a 13.1% mark in the minors.

    Ritter will need to drastically improve the plate discipline and the 51.2% ground ball rate back to their minor league numbers (42.9% ground ball rate in AAA) if he is going to find success in the majors.

    I can’t imagine him being someone to draft in standard leagues, but he could draw some deep league interest hitting in Coors.

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    October 6, 2025, 6:34 pm